Not so shabby shower gift

So last weekend Gavin and I went to a wedding shower for Chad’s cousin Tara. There was a mix up with the gift buying situation… Nancy, Jessica, and I were going in on something together and none of us bought the gift… oops. So at about 8:30 the night before the shower after my parents took the boys for the night (thank you!) Chad and I hit Target to review the registry… did I mention it was the night before the shower? Have you ever done this before? You know, wait so late that there is nothing left on the registry but a tent, 2 bath towels, an out-of -stock cutting board, and a few online only items. Well, we threw together a Welcome Mat, a leaf bag, a pair of pruning shears, and an extension cord!! Packaged it all in a nice big green Rubbermaid tub… and came out with a pretty darn cute gift! Tara, I hope you like it… it is all from your registry after all! J

I snagged this cute little bird right after Christmas from Earthbound Trading Company for like 98 cents. Now I wish I would have picked up 3 or 4.

Gavin wanted in on the action...

Isn't it cute for a mish-mash of left over registry items? I'm so glad we decided not to just get the queen size air matress, wrap it up, and be done with it.

-Stacy

WooHoo Jude!!

Not that anyone would be surprised by this at all (J), but Jude was the Student of the month for Mrs. Buettner’s class in December!!

The Millstadt grade schools run a program called Character Counts. There are six pillars of character... Trustworthiness, Respect, Responsibility, Fairness, Caring, and Citizenship. As Jude explained it, when the students in his class displayed any of these pillars, their teacher would award them a pompon. When a student collected 10 pompons, there were “in the running” for student of the month. Well sure enough, Jude did it!

The reward? This nifty sign is placed in your yard for the month so that all of your neighbors know exactly how fabulous your child is. We snapped a quick photo session:

And this is his "totally cool" pose:

And just to switch it up a bit:

And now he's getting crazy on us:

Don't ya just love him?!?! Me too.

-Stacy